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2024 Conference – Registration is now open!

The 2024 Connections Wargaming Conference will be hosted by the U.S. Army War College, at the Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, PA, June 25-27. Registration is now open on the Registration and Logistics page! Also on the same page, you can find information about the hotel room blocks that have been reserved for conference participants.

2024 Conference Theme

Our theme this year is Educational Wargaming: Play to Learn, Play to Win. We would especially welcome any presentations that touch on some aspect of this topic. However, relevance to the conference theme is in no way a requirement and we will fully consider any presentation relevant to other dimensions of the profession, especially analytic wargaming.

2023 Conference

Connections US 2023 was conducted in person at National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC, June 21-23. Many thanks to the Center for Applied Strategic Learning at NDU for being such welcoming hosts.

The 2023 conference proceedings (slides from presenters) are posted at the Connections US Conference Proceedings site. Slides from past Connections US conferences are posted as well!

Conference Background

The Connections Wargaming Conference is an annual event held each summer to bring together practitioners from every segment of the wargaming community. Connections is open to all wargaming practitioners, and we welcome international participation.

Connections US has been held every year since 1993, Connections UK was established in 2013 at Kings College London, Connections Australia was established in 2014 at the University of Melbourne, Connections Netherlands was established in 2014 by SAGANET, and Connections North (Canada) was established in 2016. These conferences are all independently managed and hosted, but they share a common mission to provide wargaming practitioners with a venue to share best practices and advance the field. Together, the Connections conferences around the world are building the wargaming community of practice and working to improve the use of wargaming as a tool for research, analysis, education, and policy.